The corpus record — Latin

peracutus

peracutus · adj

very sharp

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Where it lives

Brutus 6 · 2.39/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 1 · 0.86/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
In C. Verrem 2 · 0.2/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

pĕr-ăcūtus — Lewis & Short

pĕr-ăcūtus, a, um, adj.,

I very sharp.

I Lit.: falx, Mart. 3, 24, 5 (dub.).—

B Transf., of sound, very clear or penetrating: vox, Cic. Brut. 68, 241.—

II Trop., very keen, very acute, very penetrating: cum peracutus esset ad excogitandum, Cic. Brut. 39, 145: oratio, id. ib. 76, 264; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 44, § 108.—Adv.: pĕrăcūtē, very sharply, very acutely, with great keenness: moveri, Cic. Ac. 1, 9, 35: peracute querebare, quod, etc., id. Fam. 3, 7, 2: reperisse, App. Mag. 34.

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